Submitted by the Rensselaer County Health Department
A sixth round of sampling of properties in Poestenkill for PFOA has been concluded, but no new properties were found to have levels of PFOA above the state-permitted levels, county officials announced on Wednesday, November 24.
The results were finalized Tuesday and prepared for public release. The sixth round of testing results was announced as testing is continuing on additional properties in Poestenkill on a voluntary basis by both the county and the state.
Twenty properties were sampled during the sixth round of testing. Samples were largely conducted from sites located to the west of Algonquin Middle School. The twenty sites surveyed registered samples that show [Read more…] about Poestenkill • Latest PFOA Test Results